Brussels, 10 October 2012 – The EU Commission has confirmed that ACTA-like criminal sanctions are currently present in CETA, the Canada-EU Trade Agreement. This attempt by the EU executive to impose repression of online communications…
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Tonight at 7:45pm PST (4:45am CET), Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder and spokesperson of La Quadrature du Net will receive his 2012 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) at a ceremony in the Project One…
Paris, Sept. 4th 2012 – The European Commission is holding a consultation -ending on the 5th 11th of September- about “A clean and open Internet”. Citizen input is critically needed to ensure that freedom of…
Jérémie Zimmerman, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, an internet users’ rights watchdog urges French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to abandon a planned merger of telecoms and the broadcasting authorities which, he says, smells like…
Contrary to previous reports, France’s HADOPI might not be in any danger of being repealed anytime soon, an expert told the Daily Dot. […] France’s Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, told Le Nouvel Observateur that…
Le 4 juillet 2012, après 6 ans de négociations secrètes, de fuites sur la toile, de réunions, de discussions, de démissions, bref de rebondissements, le Traité international commercial anti-contrefaçon ACTA, a finalement été rejeté à…
Poser les fondements d’une réforme du droit d’auteur et du financement de la création : tel est l’objet d’un nouveau document préparé par Philippe Aigrain pour La Quadrature du Net. Notre chroniqueur Lionel Maurel, bibliothécaire…
Paris, July 10th 2012 – A leaked version of the Canada-EU trade agreement (CETA) contains the worst parts of ACTA. The EU Commission appears to be once again trying to bypass the democratic process in…
CETA, a free-trade deal being thrashed out between the EU and Canada, appears to contain precisely the same copyright crackdown provisions as ACTA, the international treaty rejected by the European Parliament last week. […]
The leak…
Strasbourg, July 4th 2012 – The European Parliament rejected ACTAACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, secretly negotiated and imposing tough repressive measures. See https://www.laquadrature.net/ACTA by a huge majority, killing it for good. This is a…